From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 24 11:26:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A767237C2E4 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:26:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.161]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA5FF4; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:26:02 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA15586; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:42:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:42:38 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <20000224194238.M79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <002601bf7bc7$a1fbb800$d3bda2c2@hardcore> <38B0C98B.5F84A431@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38B0C98B.5F84A431@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:13:47PM +0900 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000221 08:00], Daniel C. Sobral (dcs@newsguy.com) wrote: >No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that. >Mmmmm... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also >a trademark dispute related to a small string. :-) An american company >tried to get a license to distribute games for the game console, but the >japanese company only licensed under the terms "We'll hold exclusive >distribution rights to all games you produce", which was deemed >unacceptable. So, the company went ahead and did a straight clean-room >reverse engineering. They were later sued for the following (roughly): This sounds like the URL I paste in the channel which was a case of SEGA versus Electronic Arts IIRC. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Religion... Is the opium of the people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message